Example sentences of "that should have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs . |
| 2 | Questions that should have been asked long ago are now being asked — and , more importantly , answered . |
| 3 | Because insufficient allowances were allocated , the union argues , the local education authorities used much of the money that should have been paid in incentive allowances to classroom teachers to pay the senior staff their incentive entitlements . |
| 4 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 5 | There are , too , a few ensemble lapses that should have been corrected . |
| 6 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 7 | He asked whether senior officers who had resigned had given falling pollution standards as the reason and whether staff shortages were responsible for the failure to carry out half the tests that should have been performed . |
| 8 | The second Adam came , however , not only to save humankind , but to take us on to the destiny that should have been ours in the first place . |
| 9 | He had this load of dead-weights working for him , old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago . |
| 10 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 11 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 12 | ( Even our typewriters are mechanical horrors that should have been declared obsolete decades ago . ) |
| 13 | Returning ships from the Falklands brought much detail about the campaign that should have been the stuff of correspondent 's reports in a democratic society . |
| 14 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 15 | I know a couple of places using stuff that should have been declared dead long ago . ’ |
| 16 | The authorities ca n't decide which explanation they prefer ; either that the printing equipment is faulty , or that the duplicates are replacements for faulty notes that should have been destroyed . |
| 17 | Yet this inflexibility spoiled a day that should have been special for Dr Schofield . |
| 18 | To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough . |
| 19 | Clients have been known to send the factor invoices before the goods have been shipped , to create fictional ‘ fresh air ’ invoices , or to pocket payments that should have been passed on to the factor . |
| 20 | A tenant has no right to deduct tax that should have been deducted from earlier payments of rent to a non-resident landlord from later payments of rent to the same landlord . |
| 21 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 22 | A very handsome man on a horse came one day to enquire about a bridle that should have been ready , but was n't . |
| 23 | If fusion was really taking place , then these products should be found and from the amount of heat measured one could determine the amount of fusion products that should have been seen ; the answer was calculated to be a staggering thousand billion neutrons per second . |
| 24 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 26 | A tiny girl , but her eyes were bright and large and caring , full of the compassion that should have been a stranger in the Pot'ma railway yards . |
| 27 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 28 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 29 | The whole setting is thoroughly authenticated and everything leads nicely into Frank 's deep resentment as a worker of Polish extraction gets the promotion that should have been his . |
| 30 | Planting , the make-or-break job , follows as soon as conditions allow , but there is still a lot of preparation that should have been completed beforehand . |